There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
with every breath she takes.


Atticus Poetry

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From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of dou...
OMAR KHAYYáM
Despereaux," she whispered.
And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!"
Reader, nothing is swee...
KATE DICAMILLO
The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
TIM BURTON
There is a girl.
I named her love.
She has a father.
His name is desire.
Her mo...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS
Who dares deny that this is true:
The whole is more than all its parts?
A whole love than div...
ARTHUR DILLON
...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON
Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is n...
LAO TZU
A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY
I have no news
of my coming
or passing away--
the whole thing
happened quicke...
فرید الدین عطار
THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

Her soul...
W.B. YEATS
She cries,
I laugh,
She becomes numb,
I become filled with joy,
She slowly crumb...
TANZY SAYADI
I smile at her. "You're an angel."

"Nah," she says.
"I'm just a girl crazy in love.
PITTACUS LORE
I showed him the Post-it. “You see They’re from Lily.”

“Who’s Lily?”
DAVID LEVITHAN
Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace) <...
E.E. CUMMINGS
A bird who hurt her wing,
now forgotten how to fly.

A song she used to sing,
bu...
LANG LEAV
How you die out in me:

down to the last
worn-out
knot of breath
you're th...
PAUL CELAN
He says, "Keats for my Keats. Look inside."
I gently open the cover. Inside, written in pencil,...
JILLIAN DODD
There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother
She takes care of you when you are...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'

a foolish fish which tries to draw<...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.

LANG LEAV
It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
MOM

Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devot...
GIORGE LEEDY
I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE
COMPLETELY.
Utterly.
Frozen.
My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she fin...
COLLEEN HOOVER
There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw ...
JANDY NELSON
Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.

Girl slips on headph...
KATHLEEN GLASGOW
She walks,
on the streets,
with a face that,
doesn't belong.
It smiles more than...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER
I don't know,' he said irritably. 'Is it meant to improve you?'

She swiveled toward him, ...
JULIE ANNE LONG
A mother's love is like an island
In life's ocean vast and wide,
A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE
But this is a story,
and in a story
there is always someone
beautiful enough."
<...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
She was beauty and intelligence stitched together with no seams
She lived in a world with no d...
HUBERT MARTIN
I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,
From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It takes longer than 7 minutes for the Sun’s light to reach Earth.
Love is instantaneous . JEREMY NATHANIEL HARRISON
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
And w...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Every morning
before the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new...
MUNIA KHAN
Life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and...
LANGDON SMITH
My wife is a thief...
She takes the last cookie
Takes forever to get ready
She takes ...
DAVID JACKSON
Bleeding for a decade

For a decade,
We bleed like there is no hell but the earth
ARZUM UZUN
Intoxicate me with the beauty
and breath of your soul.
Leave such imprints on my heart MELODY LEE
She: Why was there a distance between you and me?
He: Distance makes us realize how much we mis...
AVIJEET DAS
even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN
The amount of her madness
depends on the amount of her love.
If she is crazy, frantic, ins...
MELODY LEE
There is an evil creeping inside
The darkness has a firm hold on me
There is a desire burn...
EVY MICHAELS
Soeur Marie Emelie"

Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
Wh...
KRISTEN MCKEE
I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE
I drew him in my world;
I write him in my lines,
I want to be his girl,
he was never ...
LANG LEAV
Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.
...
WARSAN SHIRE
Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON
There's a girl, Dad."

He smiled a bit. "A girl."

"She kinda hates me, and I ki...
JAMIE MCGUIRE
Because you believed
In yourself
Your tiny self

Because you knew
There is...
GABRIELLE PRENDERGAST
Sweet Grace amazes me
The way that she can see
Beyond the man I am
To the man that I ...
JASON GRAY
Every time you post something online, you have a choice.
You can either make it something that ...
ZOE SUGG
Trapped

don't undress my love
you might find a mannequin:
don't undress the man...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Remember
Love doesn't make the world go round
Sex makes it spin for a second or two
I...
CATH CROWLEY
The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden<...
ALLEN GINSBERG
Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor ...
BIBLE
Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is k...
SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY
Every letter
that she types;
every keystroke
that she strikes-

To spell yo...
LANG LEAV
There is a beast
within my heart.
She plays immaculately
with the beauty in my soul.
MELODY LEE
In myths, the hero survives.
The evil is vanquished.
The world is set right.
Sometime...
V.E. SCHWAB
over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her

that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

1. Acceptance
2....
VERA NAZARIAN
To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in ev...
FERNANDO PESSOA
I need a Kleenex.” She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
...
JULIA HOBAN
Forget the girl who had everything. She died when her father did."
"But I--"
"Nothing is w...
JAY KRISTOFF
Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in ...
C.S. LEWIS
DEMON MATH
What is JUST in a world
you've ripped in two
as if there could be
...
KAMI GARCIA
the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon SANOBER KHAN
More than nakedness,
for there is no cover to take.
The fire in your eyes
is ringed w...
DONNA GODDARD
She is that maze,
the one you would love to chase.
She is the faith,
quite missing no...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER
Then, only then
would she realize that the life
that she created will extinguish with A.P. SWEET
Creatures of the Darkness
BY VICKI JORDAN

It was world of vampires and demons, wher...
CHRIS COLFER
CHOCOLATE DAY POEM:
"Chocolate, dark or light..
Makes me smile bright.
Chocolate, whe...
VIKRMN
You're a rare breed, Richard d'Alencon."

She didn't know the half of it.

Unabl...
DIANNE DUVALL
I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
In the baby’s room

The city lights are
Milky
In the curtains…
Breath ...
JOHN GEDDES
There were guns on the coffee table. Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leane...
JIM BUTCHER
Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
Me plus you. (Imma ...
JUSTIN BIEBER
Poetry is an act of love.
Without love life is impossible.
Without poetry love has no ex...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The Wanderer

What is she like?
I was told—
she is a
melancholy soul.
LANG LEAV
there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
To an Isle in the Water

Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in t...
W.B. YEATS
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'

The corners of ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Blue Planet Phenomenon.

she’s from the pink planet called Constellation
he’s f...
R.M. ROMARNEY
Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you wil...
KABIR
From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE
love
iz
a
big
fat
turkey
and
every
day
iz
thanksgi...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Nothing in the world is single
All things by law divine
In one another's being mingle
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world i...
EMILIE AUTUMN
Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are gam...
DR. SEUSS
I sat in a box
With walls on each side.
Not too tall.
Not too wide.
To think. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .

And it is as t...
AL-MUTANABBī
When a man is in love
how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover ...
نزار قباني

More Atticus Poetry

I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces...
ATTICUS POETRY
She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.
ATTICUS POETRY
A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY
What good are wings without the courage to fly?
ATTICUS POETRY
Love her but leave her wild 
ATTICUS POETRY
She had just enough madness to make her interesting
ATTICUS POETRY
She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. 
ATTICUS POETRY
Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
t...
ATTICUS POETRY
I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you lov...
ATTICUS POETRY
I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk. 
ATTICUS POETRY
We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
ATTICUS POETRY
Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
ATTICUS POETRY
Tutti indossiamo una maschera,
per alcuni è il trucco,
per altri il sorriso,
le mogl...
ATTICUS POETRY
I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tom...
ATTICUS POETRY
As he took her hand
he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY
You deserve to be the person you were meant to be. 
ATTICUS POETRY
It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart
ATTICUS POETRY
Art takes time—
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.
ATTICUS POETRY
There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,...
ATTICUS POETRY
Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.
ATTICUS POETRY
We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
ATTICUS POETRY
Time is all we have and don’t. 
ATTICUS POETRY
That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY
She was everything real in a world of make-believe. 
ATTICUS POETRY
She wore the moonlight like lingerie. 
ATTICUS POETRY
From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY
Chase your stars fool, life is short. 
ATTICUS POETRY
It was her chaos that made her beautiful. 
ATTICUS POETRY
I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY
I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AF...
ATTICUS POETRY
Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY
Love her but leave her wild.
ATTICUS
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.
ATTICUS
I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong. 
ATTICUS
I've always resented mirrors for their honesty.
ATTICUS
It's a sad thing, protecting a breakable heart.
ATTICUS
I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you cli...
ATTICUS
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by...
ATTICUS
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son, ... I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That...
ATTICUS
Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looki...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
ATTICUS FINCH
A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then th...
ATTICUS ROSS
If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You ...
ATTICUS FINCH
Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you beg...
ATTICUS FINCH
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's n...
ATTICUS FINCH
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is hard...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and t...
ATTICUS ROSS
I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved...
ATTICUS ROSS
My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
ATTICUS ROSS
I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
ATTICUS ROSS
My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young...
ATTICUS ROSS
My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.
ATTICUS ROSS
For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.
ATTICUS ROSS
Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so ...
ATTICUS ROSS
I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I&#...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I love any comedic zombie movies.
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like '...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then bein...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thin...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it ver...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone ...
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